Private Bank Issues

Sale 65    15–16 Nov 2000   Wentworth Hotel   Sydney

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Lot 3254    Session 10 (7.30pm Thursday)    Private Bank Issues

Estimate $400
Bid at live.noble.com.au
SOLD $600

STACE, Thomas., Hobart Town, currency note, threepence (in Spanish Dollars at 5s each), 19 May 1826 (1826 printed), No.E103, hand signed by Thos. Stace, on printed form, black on white, printed on ornate printers sample paper (McNeice 36). Stuck down on backing paper, although not detracting from the note, with folds, otherwise fine and rare.

Stace is noted as an issuer by McNeice (Tasmanian Promissory Notes) and Mira (Coinage and Currency in New South Wales 1788-1829). Thomas Stace was a school teacher, and many of his notes were printed on 'alphabet paper' or printers sample paper as in this instance.

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